Watchdogs who have long had their ears pressed to the ground trying to make out the secretive moves of the intel community are now instead at a festival with multiple stages. The change in information access since the Edward Snowden leaks is dramatic. ![]() The " Snowden Effect" was in full force on Wednesday as, almost simultaneously, 1) The Guardian released a new report on "X-Keyscore" - the NSA's search engine for its massive database of emails, chats and other Internet activity 2) the Director of National Intelligence declassified documents about its bulk collection of phone and email metadata and an example of the court authorization to collect, store and query that data and 3) the Senate Judiciary Committee questioned members of the intelligence community about the exact nature of these programs and whether they're worth the invasion of Americans' privacy.
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